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Archive: Empress Dowager Cixi
BBC Radio 4
Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His fifth choice, first released in May 2024, is the Empress Dowager Cixi, the woman who, for almost ...[Continue Reading]
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Deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial to reconvene on sixth day of deliberations
By Nate Raymond
By Nate Raymond Sept 3 (Reuters) - Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial will begin a sixth day of deliberations on Thursday after twice saying they were deadlocked on whether to convict the Massa ...[Continue Reading]
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What We Owe Nolan Wells
Cristian Farias
There is no playbook for how a mother grieving the death of her child, under unknown circumstances, should seek justice. For a Black mother whose 18-year-old son didnt come home after a Fourth of Jul ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
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The Legal Wreckage of the Supreme Courts Ballroom Follies
Matt Ford
The government has also presented declarations from the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Di ...[Continue Reading]
The New Republic
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jon Ronson
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I do unashamedly want to write page-turners, Jon Ronson told The New Yorker in an interview. I can never understand why most nonfiction books have such limited creative ambitions. Ronson, who is not ...[Continue Reading]
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The Bears Den: Chicago is hot, and so are the Bears
Ken Mitchell
It reached the mid-90's at Halas Hall on Wednesday as both the weather and the Chicago Bears are hot topics this week. A video of Kyler Gordon training appeared on the interwebs today, but it was a ...[Continue Reading]
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